Things not to do in the video store

[April]

Don't throw movies at the clerk. We don't like that.

Don't ask "What movie is that?" without looking first. We don't like that.

Don't get near the end of a transaction and walk away, looking for another movie. We don't like that.

Don't bring in the whole neighborhood's kids and let them tear up the store. We don't like that. At all!

If you want to put a movie back, don't just put it anywhere, because it doesn't go there. We don't like that, dumbass. Either put it back where you got it, or give it to the clerk.

If you want to have any sort of a friendly relationship with your local video slinger, DO NOT rearrange the shelves to be helpful. We fucking hate that, and will subsequently fuck with you every chance we get.

Learn the rules. Remember the rules. Don't break the rules. We don't like that.

If it's one minute past closing, it's late. Suck it up and don't whine. You knew the rules. Whiny customers suck.

DO NOT expect the clerk to do favors for you. You have to earn them. They are not a right. 'Nuff said.

Chocolate makes an excellent bribe. We like that.

 

[riff]

What kind of video store?
Or should I say what section?

I like my porno organized by distributor.
I like my mainstream organized by genre and sorted by director.

 

[Spinaroonie]

Ooooohh! Navy Seals!

 

[April]

Spinaroonie's on the evil eye list already.

Riff, your average mainstream video store. With a crappy porn selection.

 

[Felicia4411]

My friend worked at a video store for the last 5 months. She tells me all the things crappy customers do that piss her off. I never realized what shit heads we video-renting people are.
April do you work at like a blockbuster or what? At our blockbuster down here for some reason the new releases are put out alphabetically by title but then they'll have like 2 or 3 movies in the middle of a letter that are spelled with a different letter. It confuses me to no end, I walk around forever trying to find my new release. But it could just be the blockbuster down here.

 

[Felicia4411]

BTW Spinaroonie

I absolutely love your AV. It makes me miss the constitution too!

 

[DéjàNu]

Don't throw movies at the clerk. We don't like that.

Don't ask "What movie is that?" without looking first. We don't like that.

Don't get near the end of a transaction and walk away, looking for another movie. We don't like that.

Don't bring in the whole neighborhood's kids and let them tear up the store. We don't like that. At all!

If you want to put a movie back, don't just put it anywhere, because it doesn't go there. We don't like that, dumbass. Either put it back where you got it, or give it to the clerk.

If you want to have any sort of a friendly relationship with your local video slinger, DO NOT rearrange the shelves to be helpful. We fucking hate that, and will subsequently fuck with you every chance we get.

Learn the rules. Remember the rules. Don't break the rules. We don't like that.

If it's one minute past closing, it's late. Suck it up and don't whine. You knew the rules. Whiny customers suck.

DO NOT expect the clerk to do favors for you. You have to earn them. They are not a right. 'Nuff said.

Chocolate makes an excellent bribe. We like that.

Yep I'm 100% with you on those April.. During college and university I have worked 5 years in a video store, that was at the beginning of them actually, when the porn movie where mixted with all the others and Beta was the most own type of video format Darn I'm old!

But we did have so much fun then... getting membership was 50$ and renting a movie was 5$, but working there you could watch any movies you want.

I dont know for today but when I was working the nastier poeple were the one that was bringing their movie too late, after the deadline... they were throwing their movie at me and sometime running or saying "I dont pay for the deadline".. the one who were nice and asking how much they own me for the late come back movie I didnt charge them anything because they were nice.

 

[Spinaroonie]

Re: BTW Spinaroonie

I absolutely love your AV. It makes me miss the constitution too!

Um... The av really has nothing to do with that at all. I had a sadder one a few days ago, this is just an oldie.

BTW, Did you used to teach spanish in Texas? If you did I wanted to have sex with you

 

[Felicia4411]

I was pretty sure it wasn't about that, for some reason it just makes me laugh everytime I see it. Hmm, so you wanted to have sex then but not anymore? If that's the case then no I never taught Spanish in Texas or anywhere.

 

[Spinaroonie]

I was pretty sure it wasn't about that, for some reason it just makes me laugh everytime I see it. Hmm, so you wanted to have sex then but not anymore? If that's the case then no I never taught Spanish in Texas or anywhere.

Well I didn't say I stopped... but.. anyways... Thank you Yeah, lot of people like this one.

 

[April]

Felicia, your Blockbuster is apparently staffed by morons. Morons who can't spell. I work in a video store in Europe. Much like any small local non-chain store. Customers suck. Hence the sig line.

You wouldn't believe the things people do to DVDs. It's just amazing and shocking. No respect for things that don't belong to them.

 

[sufisaint]

I got a question for you??? Do you secretly laugh at some of the people who come up there with wierd porn.... (I don't rent porn movies...thats what te internets for!!!) I am curious though...

 

[April]

I got a question for you??? Do you secretly laugh at some of the people who come up there with wierd porn.... (I don't rent porn movies...thats what te internets for!!!) I am curious though...

Absolutely not. But during my first video job, I would laugh at some of the titles. That store had a lot of porn. I remember Edward Penishands. And Bobbit:Uncut. *snicker*

 

[bknight2602]

Don't throw movies at the clerk. We don't like that.

Don't ask "What movie is that?" without looking first. We don't like that.

Don't get near the end of a transaction and walk away, looking for another movie. We don't like that.

Don't bring in the whole neighborhood's kids and let them tear up the store. We don't like that. At all!

If you want to put a movie back, don't just put it anywhere, because it doesn't go there. We don't like that, dumbass. Either put it back where you got it, or give it to the clerk.

If you want to have any sort of a friendly relationship with your local video slinger, DO NOT rearrange the shelves to be helpful. We fucking hate that, and will subsequently fuck with you every chance we get.

Learn the rules. Remember the rules. Don't break the rules. We don't like that.

If it's one minute past closing, it's late. Suck it up and don't whine. You knew the rules. Whiny customers suck.

DO NOT expect the clerk to do favors for you. You have to earn them. They are not a right. 'Nuff said.

Chocolate makes an excellent bribe. We like that.

The public is extremely difficult to deal with, I would prefer not to be in customer service like you are!

 

[sufisaint]

I think I would have to laugh....A friend of mine(no really it was not me I swear) told me story of how he rented some movie like chicks with dicks or something like that and he said the girl working their was about 18 years old and gave him this horrid look....

 

[April]

More things not to do in a video store

Don't twirl my chair. I DON'T like that.

Don't interrupt me when I'm talking to someone else. It's very rude, and no one likes that.

Don't slam your movies into the drop box. It ricochets off the other side and makes a lot of noise. We don't like that.

Also, don't slam the drop box lid. See above for why and the result.

Don't ever say we should be more like Blockbuster. This isn't the states, and if you don't like it, go home. Grr.

Don't try the door thirty minutes after closing time and actually think it will be open. We don't like that.

Don't bang on the door after closing. We don't like that, and will remember you and hate you for as long as you are here.

Don't browse the store then ask me where the new releases are. This just proves how stupid you are. We don't like stupid customers or stupid questions.

Don't argue with me about your late fee. This just makes me hate you. If you have a complaint or question about it, ask politely, and I'll see what I can do about it. If you keep yapping about it while I'm trying to figure out what went wrong, you're screwed.

Don't ever threaten the video clerk. We really don't like that, and will not hesitate to call the police, MPs, or IMPs if needed.

 

[Guest]

And please don't masturbate.....

From my experiences in management in all the mall based bookstores I have served time in, I found this to be true. At one point, regardless of the location of the mall nor the patronage of the store, someone will find a place to leave an unsollicited sperm specimen and an adult magazine will be 'hidden' nearby......At one point I made my supervisor very unhappy when he discovered a hand lettered sign above the Mens' magazine section that read, 'For those of you unable to restrain your urges, please ask the clerk on duty for a tissue, yet another quality service we offer at ******books'.......That earned me a few days off with pay.....

 

[rosco rathbone]

@#$% video store clerks

If you don't like dealing with the public, don't work in retail or a @#$% service industry. You act like you are doing your customers a big favor by existing to push the cash register buttons.

rr

 

[April]

Re: @#$% video store clerks

If you don't like dealing with the public, don't work in retail or a @#$% service industry. You act like you are doing your customers a big favor by existing to push the cash register buttons.

rr

Bite me.

 

[Bigdog]

April

If you want to keep that "Bitch" rep you gotta do better than "bite me".

 

[Sillyman]

How about then...

Singing loudly and off-key?

Juggle boxes?

Tell long boring stories about how much better things were before all this DVD nonsense and about how shocking it is kids today don't even know what a record looks like?

Bang our heads against the ground screaming "THANK YOU LORD JE-SUS!!" when the movie we want is in?

Stare very intently at a point just left of your ear as you ring us up?

See a box and start loudly sobbing, "That was OUR movie..."?

Come in wearing nothing but boxers?

 

[snoozebutton]

I managed a video store a while. My pet peev was asking where a new movie was after browsing. I mean can't people figure out that the movies are sorted alphebetically lol.

 

[Felicia4411]

Rosco I can see where you're coming from...some people who work in customer service act like you're out of line for asking for some help. But I know there are people out there who are just jerks to customer service people. My friend that worked at the video store always had customers coming in the day their movie was due back and saying it was defective and asking for another rental for free and when checked, surprise, surprise, the video was just fine. She said sometimes people would return movies that were totally ruined (tape coming out of the cassette, or melted from the sun) and say that it was like that when they got it. So I commend you for sticking it out and doing your best to be polite

 

[April]

Bang our heads against the ground screaming "THANK YOU LORD JE-SUS!!" when the movie we want is in?

Yes. It's required here.

Hush, Bigdog.

I swear our customers turn off their brains when they come in sometimes. They don't read the signs we put up, don't look at the tape case, which has our phone number and operating hours on it, and never seem to notice the stickers on the movies signifying category and place on shelf. But I'm slowly teaching them.